Pamela Wood
Pamela Wood covers Baltimore County government and politics. She joined The Sun in 2013 as an Anne Arundel County reporter and previously wrote for The Capital, the Maryland Gazette, The Daily Times (Salisbury) and Gannett News Service. She grew up in Howard County and graduated from the University of Maryland.
Recent Articles
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Baltimore County to host free July concert featuring BSO musicians; Hogan unlikely to release BSO funds
The show will go on at Oregon Ridge Park in July. Baltimore Symphony Orchestra musicians have struck a deal with Baltimore County government to hold the popular Independence Day concert despite the BSO’s previous cancellation of the event, County Executive Johnny Olszewski Jr. announced Thursday....
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Maryland Gov. Hogan, Baltimore Mayor Young mark progress in razing city's vacant homes. How much is unclear.
With some expert advice from Pless Jones of P&J Contracting, Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan manned a 21-ton hydraulic excavator Thursday and smashed a gaping hole in the side of a dilapidated, vacant rowhome in East Baltimore. “I was taking out some of my frustrations,” the Republican governor said...
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Maryland Gov. Hogan names 11 new members to UMMS board plagued by contracting scandal
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan named Wednesday his initial batch of new appointees to the troubled board of directors at the University of Maryland Medical System, the first step toward reorganizing the board following a scandal over board members having lucrative contracts with the 13-hospital system....
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Justin Fenton discusses key takeaways from his 'Cops and Robbers' Gun Trace Task Force series
New findings from Baltimore Sun reporter Justin Fenton reveal how rogue members of the Gun Trace Task Force thrived in the police department for so long.
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Maryland Gov. Hogan to Trump administration: Put Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan is urging the Trump administration to reconsider its decision to delay putting Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill. In a letter Tuesday to U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, Hogan wrote he was “incredibly disappointed” Tubman won’t be on the $20 next year. Treasury officials...
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Maryland Senate President Miller: Health news is 'largely good'
Maryland Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller, who is being treated for advanced prostate cancer, told his colleagues in a letter that “the news is largely good” regarding his health. “While I still incur back pain due to the cancer in my bones, I otherwise continue to face an improving prognosis...
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Maryland Gov. Hogan wins key approval for toll lanes project in D.C. suburbs
Maryland’s Board of Public Works approved the state’s use of private companies to widen highways in the Washington suburbs, but agreed to delay work on the Capital Beltway after running into opposition. The vote came during a lengthy and tense meeting Wednesday on Gov. Larry Hogan’s plan to enlist...
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Maryland lawmakers, advocacy groups urge rejection of Gov. Hogan's toll lanes plan in D.C. suburbs
Dozens of Maryland lawmakers are speaking out against a proposal to contract with a private company to add miles of toll lanes to two busy highways in the Washington suburbs. Fifty-nine lawmakers wrote to members of the state Board of Public Works on Monday, urging them to reject Gov. Larry Hogan’s...